3G Wireless with 802.16 and 802.11: WiMAX and WiFi

by Clint Smith, John Meyer

Overview

The integration of 802.11 (Wi-Fi) and 802.16 (Wi-Max) into wireless networks is a major new potential revenue stream for service providers. This rigorous tutorial shows communications engineers how to re-engineer existing networks to integrate the new standards.

Contents: Introduction * Radio Engineering * Network Engineering * Digital Wireless Systems * 802.11 * 802.16 * 802.20 * Convergence Wireless Mobility

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780071440820
Publisher:	McGraw Hill LLC
Publication date:	08/24/2004
Series:	Professional Engineering Series
Pages:	234
Product dimensions:	6.20(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.89(d)

About the Author

Clint Smith P.E. is Vice President of ASI, where he is currently involved in the design and deployment of mobile data networks with GSM/GPRS/EDGE and CDMA2000 from both a core network and RF aspect. He has extensive design and operational experience in both mobile and fixed networks. He is also the author of Practical Cellular and PCS Design, LMDS, Wireless Telecom FAQs, and a co-author of Cellular System Design and Optimization, 3G Wireless Networks and Wireless Network Performance Handbook.

John Meyer is the President of ASI. He is an international expert in both core network and RF engineering having over 25 years of experience in the communications industry, including 10 years with the Motorola Cellular Infrastructure Group. He is actively involved with the deployment and integration of 2.5G and 3G mobile data networks with an emphasis on both the financial and technical components of offering wireless mobile data.

John Meyer (Oakbrook, IL) is the Principal and Founder of Acorn Systems, Inc. An expert in both network and RF engineering he has over 20 years experience in the communications industry, 10 of those with the Motorola Cellular Infrastructure Group.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1: Introduction

Chapter 2: Radio System

Chapter 3: Network Design

Chapter 4: Mobile Wireless Systems

Chapter 5: 802.11

Chapter 6: IEEE 802.16 (WMAN/WIMax)

Chapter 7: 802.20 -- MBWA

Chapter 8: Convergence Wireless Mobility and 802.x
INDEX

Editorial Reviews

Perhaps the fastest changing technology area is wireless communications. The old analog cell phone systems got us started with the idea of being able to talk anywhere. And if we could talk, we could send data. And if this worked, then the newer digital networks had to be designed from the ground up with a mixture of voice and data. Now we are reaching to the point where wireless may become a serious competitor to land lines for data communications. Already we see wireless networks in Starbucks and McDonalds, hidden below the surface are ATM machines, gas pumps, cash registers and more. The new IEEE 802.16 is bringing standardization to wireless broadband access, just as DSL and cable modem broadband.

This book is a snapshot of the technology of wireless data communications technology as it exists today. It is intended for the person who is thinking about or planning on the installation of a wireless data network. Part of the McGraw-Hill Professional Engineering series, it is a description of the technology itself. It is not a cookbook of the buy one of these and plug it into one of those types. It goes into the details of how the technology works. It describes all of the new buzz words. It is an introduction to Wi-Fi and WiMAX, but is not aimed at the total beginner or the shall we say technologically challenged.

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